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Date Posted: 09:35:57 04/15/08 Tue GMT
Author: Lynn
Subject: Patrick Hillery has died....served 2 terms as Pres. of Ireland (Chicago Tribune)


www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-hillery_obitapr14,0,6829769.story

chicagotribune.com

Patrick Hillery 1923 ~ 2008

Served two terms as president of Ireland

As foreign minister, he negotiated nation's 1973 entry to the future European Union

Tribune staff report

April 14, 2008


Associated Press
DUBLIN — Former Irish President Patrick Hillery died Saturday at age 84 and will receive a full state funeral, the government announced.
Mr. Hillery died in a Dublin hospice after a short, undisclosed illness, the government said.
As foreign minister, Mr. Hillery negotiated Ireland's 1973 entry to the future European Union. He served two terms as president, Ireland's symbolic head of state, and ran unopposed both times — an unprecedented concession that reflected his popularity.
Leaders from all parties lauded Mr. Hillery as an exceptionally impartial and ethical politician who confronted anti-British extremism and poor ethical standards within his own party, Fianna Fail.
"He was a man of great integrity, decency and intelligence. He contributed massively to the progress of our country and he is assured of an honored place in Ireland's history," said Prime Minister Bertie Ahern, who leads Fianna Fail today.
Mr. Hillery studied medicine at University College Dublin and became a doctor but turned to politics when Fianna Fail founder and Prime Minister Eamon de Valera recruited him to be his parliamentary running mate in their home county.
Mr. Hillery represented Clare in Ireland's parliament, Dail Eireann, from 1951 to 1973.
He is best known in some quarters for his fiery denunciation of Irish Republican Army sympathizers at the Fianna Fail conference in 1971. The party was deeply divided because former government colleagues had been expelled from the Cabinet after allegedly conspiring to ship weapons to a newly born IRA in Northern Ireland.
When a leading Fianna Fail rebel, Kevin Boland, took control of the speaker's podium and party hard-liners began chanting "We want Boland!" Mr. Hillery wrestled away the microphone. That defining moment was repeatedly rebroadcast Saturday on Irish national radio.
Mr. Hillery, normally a soft-spoken man, shouted at the Boland supporters that they were backing "the enemies of Fianna Fail! ... You can have Boland — but you can't have Fianna Fail!"



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